The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has warn?ed that cyanobacteria, which is informally known as blue-green algae, has been found in Big Reed Pond off East Lake Drive in Montauk and could be hazardous to people and animals, especially dogs that take a dip in the pond or even walk too close to its edge. Big Reed Pond, as well as Lake Agawam in Southampton and Marratooka Lake in Mattituck, has been declared off-limits for people and dogs by the D.E.C.

According to Matt Stedman of Montauk’s Third House Nature Center, a blue-green bloom became visible several years ago at Big Reed after heavy spring rains, which apparently caused the contaminant to explode and choke the oxygen out of the freshwater body of water, which is tucked away in the woods. Since then, members  and several interns at the center have been monitoring the pond and taking samples for further study. A presentation on their findings will be made at the Montauk Library tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.

Residents, and dogs, often walk at Big Reed Pond, although it is not a common swimming hole. Animals that come in contact with the bacteria could suffer convulsions, seizures, or paralysis, according to the D.E.C. In 2012, cyanobacteria was suspected of having caused the death of a Jack Russell terrier, who had been in Georgica Pond in East Hampton.

Elbert Edwards and Bruce Siska were easily re-elected to the East Hampton Village Board on Tuesday. When the polls closed at 9 p.m., Mr. Edwards had received 55 votes; 53 votes were cast for Mr. Siska. Three write-in votes were cast, with two for Michael Elinski and one for John Wessberg.

The incumbents were re-elected to four-year terms. Mr. Edwards, the board’s senior member, was first elected in 1977. Mr. Siska is the newest member, having been appointed in 2011 to replace David Brown, who served from 1992 until his resignation. He was later elected to complete the remaining period of Mr. Brown’s term.

Kaitlin A. Ganga and Jeremiah L. Overton were married in the field behind the American Legion Hall in Amagansett on May 17, a date that marks both of their birthdays. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Megan Ganga of Glade Road and Anthony J. Ganga of Neck Path, both in Springs. Mr. Overton’s parents are Leon and Suzanne Overton of Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton.

Attending the bride were Danielle Tum of New Port Richey, Fla., as maid of honor; Lacy Bejsovec and Huong Duong of East Hampton, Sherry Gherardi of Bethpage, Victoria Ganga of East Hampton, her cousin, and the groom’s niece Rachel Overton of East Hampton. The bride’s daughter, Jana Lee Syfert of East Hampton, and another of Mr. Overton’s nieces, Gabrielle Miller, were the flower girls.

The groom’s father was his best man. He was also attended by Justin Leland of East Hampton, Chad Webb of Sag Harbor, Ian Megginson of East Hampton, and the bride’s brother, Jason Ganga of Houston, who gave the bride away.

She wore a strapless Galina ivory lace gown and carried white vendela roses and hydrangeas. Her attendants wore navy and yellow.

The wedding was catered by the bride and groom and her father and brother, with a Tuscan Table by Debbie Geppert.

The bride, who will take her husband’s name, is a supervisor at Island Group Administration in East Hampton. Mr. Overton is an arborist at Timberworks Tree and Land Management, also in East Hampton.

After a honeymoon to Cancun in Mexico, the couple are back at home on Tub-Oarsman’s Road, East Hampton.

The third annual re-enactment of the 1942 Nazi saboteur landing on Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett will take place tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. The action will begin and end at the former Life Saving Station, the 1902 structure on Atlantic Avenue that is undergoing extensive renovation as a museum and community center. Admission is free.

Like last year’s re-enactment, this year’s event will include costumed actors and props in telling the story of how a plot to destroy New York City’s transportation system and terrorize Americans at home as World War II raged overseas was thwarted. Hugh King, the director of Home, Sweet Home Museum and East Hampton Village historian, who leads tours as the “town crier,” will direct Sonny Sireci, Carl Irace, Evan Thomas, Ted Hults, and Samantha Ruddock as local residents, American coast guardsmen, and saboteurs.

Tomorrow’s re-enactment is exactly 72 years from the day that four Germans came ashore on the beach at Amagansett from a submarine. A 21-year-old coast guardsman stationed at the Amagansett Life Saving Station, John Cullen, was patrolling the beaches when he encountered the four men on the beach to the east of the station. The saboteurs offered him $400 to keep quiet. Mr. Cullen took the money, but ran back to the station and reported what had happened. The four made their way to the Amagansett railroad station and, from there, to New York City, where they were captured.

Three of the saboteurs were executed following a trial by a military tribunal; the fourth, who tipped off the F.B.I., received a 30-year prison term. Their story and that of four other would-be saboteurs, who came ashore near Jacksonville, Fla., at the same time, have been the subject of two books. 

In a letter to The Star in 2011, the late Capt. Milton Miller, who was in both the Coast Guard and the Navy before and during World War II, wrote that, “If John Cullen had been killed and his body buried behind a sand dune, or at sea, no one would have ever known what happened to him. New York City would have been destroyed, and it would have affected the whole nation.”

Wondering where your prescription and over-the-counter medications may end up when tossed in the trash or flushed down the toilet? The answer is an important one: our drinking water, bays, and harbors.

In an effort to stop improper disposal of medications, the Group for the East End has set up the East End Medication Disposal Program, which encourages residents to throw out unused medications in drop boxes at police headquarters in Wainscott, at 131 Wainscott Northwest Road, in East Hampton Village, at 1 Cedar Street, and in Sag Harbor, at 70 Division Street. Pills, powders, liquids, and EpiPens are accepted, but syringes, medical waste, and mercury thermometers are not.

The brothers Richie and Jacob Nessel are probably the most reluctant oldtimers to be honored tonight at the annual Old Timers dinner hosted by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce.

“I’m not old,” said Jake Nessel.

“It’s wonderful. Can I leave now and go home for dinner?” asked Richie Nessel when the two met with a visitor for a photograph on the docks near the Ebb Tide, the boat Captain Jake runs.

They may not consider themselves old, but they have been fishing commercially for more than 50 years, mainly in Montauk. Richie Nessel’s boat is called the Nasty Ness, and he also mates on other Montauk boats.

In a release, chamber officials called the brothers fishing activists, record-holders, and legends in Montauk’s harbor community.

Richie Nessel recently received the International Game Fish Association’s Chester H. Wolfe Outstanding Sportsmanship Award at the annual Shark’s Eye tournament, a tag-and-release event in Montauk that promotes the conservation of sharks. He was also instrumental in easing this year’s state fishing regulations and catch limits, specifically addressing the summer flounder restrictions in New York as compared to other states.

He got in touch with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and invited him out for a day of fishing on his boat. The governor accepted his invitation and the visit resulted in heightened awareness of problems with the regulations and changes in the daily bag limits by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, which fishermen hope will have a positive effect on charter and party boat business this summer.

Captain Jake began fishing with his father in 1951. When he was 15 in 1955, he started working as a deckhand on party boats out of Montauk on weekends and summer vacations. He spent the next 15 years running the Marlin III, IV, and V boats. He purchased his own boat, the Sportfisher, and fished from that for two years.

Since 1996, he has captained the Ebb Tide party boat, formerly the Marlin V. Highlights of his career include landing two 18-pound fluke and helping a woman land a world-record 55-pound codfish. He is the current world record-holder for a codfish weighing in at 85 pounds. He also won the Montauk Marine Basin Shark Tournament in its first year, landing a 320-pound mako.

Phil Hewitt, a lifelong friend of the brothers who now lives and captains boats in Florida, sent a statement to the chamber to be read at the dinner, recalling that when the Nessel family first moved to the hamlet a bunch of local fishermen got a quick lesson from them.

He said Jake is the guy with all the skills and intuition to be a successful fisherman in a highly competitive area. “He proves his ability every day, and has a good dose of normal luck,” Mr. Hewitt said.

But Richie Nessel, he said, takes luck to a whole new realm. “Just like Jake, he has the skills to load the dock with fish on a regular basis. But in Richie’s world the golden starburst of luck seems to perpetually glitter.”

He mentioned one fishing trip with Richie Nessel in which a spotter plane was used to locate swordfish. Mr. Nessel’s back was to the water, and he kept asking what the pilot was yelling about. Mr. Hewitt and another mate shouted in unison, “Turn around!” and as he did he saw a massive fish slipping under the boat. Quick of hand, Mr. Nessel flipped the harpoon like a garden rake and made a direct hit, said Mr. Hewitt. Soon the 476-pound swordfish was flopping about on the boat’s deck.

At tonight’s party there will be a roasting of the two brothers before dinner, which comes with beer or wine. A cash bar will be available. Tickets cost $40, but only a few remain. Guests without tickets have been invited to arrive at 5 for the cash bar and the roasting.

The East Hampton Town Board will form three committees to grapple with erosion in the downtown Montauk beach area, Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc told the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee Monday night.

One committee will deal with the Army Corps of Engineers, the second will work on creating a tax district to fund beach-restoration projects, and the third will help devise a post-storm recovery plan.

“If we have a catastrophic storm, we’ll have a plan and make ourselves more resilient,” he said.

 There is still no timeline for dune stabilization project that the Army Corps has promised, the councilman said, adding that variances, some significant, must be obtained from property owners near where the sand-filled geotextile bags will be placed. In some cases, the variance would be needed for work on just a sliver of land, but in others it could be more, he said.

The town continues to press the Army Corps “for how much we can get from them and we’re going to keep pressing them,” he said, later adding that the town is also pressing the Corps to extend a sand-replenishment project to the Ditch Plain beach.

Once the sand is delivered, residents can expect at least 1,600 truckloads crossing the Montauk Highway to the downtown beach area, Councilman Van Scoyoc said.

He also discussed the Lake Montauk Watershed Management Plan, a study that started in 2008 to identify and address pollution in Lake Montauk. The report is just a draft and full of redundancies, he said. However, he detailed the most significant sources of pollution in the lake, one of which is boaters dumping human waste in the lake, which is prohibited by law but occurs nonetheless. Robbie Rosen, a licensed boat captain who also lives near the lake and visited the meeting as a guest, said he has seen and smelled boaters dumping their waste into the lake.

The Lake Montauk watershed encompasses areas from Ditch Plain in the east all the way to downtown Montauk, explained Julie Brunn, a committee member who has worked with the town on the study. Motels, clubs, and marinas were found to have the most problematic of the septic systems in the watershed, she said.

Other pollutants come from stormwater runoff, geese and other animal droppings, pesticides, poor drainage systems, and tick-control measures. The study notes that the town has the opportunity to work with Suffolk County to address concerns regarding pesticide input into the lake and the best management practices to minimize pesticide impact in cases of tick-control spraying.

The report suggests establishing attractive and eye-catching signs announcing the entrance to the Lake Montauk Watershed in highly visible areas to help increase awareness, something the advisory committee has been suggesting for years. Members said and the report concludes that the worst area of pollution is the south end of the lake, a public beach where many families and children go to swim. Ms. Brunn said the beach at South Lake tested high for fecal matter. She also said that commercial septic systems are supposed to be inspected every three years, but that this rule is barely enforced.

 A sign posted at South Lake Beach says swimming is prohibited because there is no lifeguard on duty. But members said no one should swim there because of pollution, and that the town should quickly post a sign, as the swimming season has started. The report will soon be made public on the town’s website and public input will be sought.

Two seats on the East Hampton Village Board will be filled on June 17, when voters go to the polls from noon to 9 p.m. The Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street is the polling place.Elbert Edwards and Bruce Siska, incumbent board members, are up for re-election and are running unopposed.

Board members are elected to four-year terms. Mr. Edwards, the senior member of the board, was first elected in 1977. Mr. Siska was appointed in 2011 to replace David Brown, who served from 1992 until he resigned. He was later elected to complete the remaining period of Mr. Brown’s tenure, which is now concluding.

Moody’s Investor Service has upgraded East Hampton Village’s bond rating from Aa2 to Aa1, indicating a very strong capacity to meet financial commitments.

The provider of credit ratings and risk analysis cited the village’s sizable and affluent tax base and modest debt burden as strong indicators of its financial position.

The upgrade, according to a release issued by Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and the village board, followed the village’s decision to refinance a series of bonds, resulting in savings of almost $225,000.

The village’s general fund balance continues to increase, the release states, due in part to a rise in building department revenues and improved collection of court fines and fees.

Southampton Hospital will host a panel discussion on tick-borne illnesses on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Parrish Memorial Hall on Herrick Road in Southampton Village.

The panel is the first event offered by the hospital’s recently launched Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center, a place to go for education and facilitated access to medical care related to tick bites. An advisory panel consists of nine different medical specialists who address the spectrum of issues associated with the different diseases ticks are known to carry and transmit.

This week’s panel will include George Dempsey and Gerald T. Simons from East Hampton Family Medicine; Rajeev Fernando, the director of infectious disease at the hospital, and Anthony Knott, a doctor with Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk. The title of the panel is “Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease: The Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment, Prevention.”

The panel is free, but space is limited. Reservations can be made by contacting Karen Wulffraat at [email protected].